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| Issuer | Gough Island |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gough Island is an uninhabited British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, home to a weather station staffed by South African personnel under a lease agreement — it has no civilian population, no economy, and no reason to issue circulating coinage. The "X#" reference prefix in Krause assigns it to the non-standard issues section, the catalog's polite way of acknowledging that a piece functions as a bullion souvenir rather than a monetary instrument.
The 2005 date places this squarely in the wave of VE-Day 60th anniversary issues that flooded the commemorative market that year.